PHP

Bind and Listen on an Available Port in a Range

Demonstrates Socket.BindAndListenPortRange, which searches an inclusive port range for an available TCP port, binds it, and begins listening. It returns the selected port, or -1 on failure.

Background. This is useful when any of several ports is acceptable and the application needs to discover which one was bound.

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<?php

use Chilkat2\Socket;

$socket = new Socket();

// Search the inclusive port range for an available TCP port, bind it, and begin listening.  The
// method returns the selected port, or -1 when no port can be bound.
$boundPort = $socket->BindAndListenPortRange(5000, 5100, 25);
if ($boundPort < 0) {
    echo $socket->LastErrorText, "\n";
    exit;
}

echo 'Listening on port ', $boundPort, "\n";